Anatole France Books In Order

Novels

Balthasar (1889)
At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque (1893)
Thais (1901)
Crainquebille (1904)
The White Stone (1905)
The Red Lily (1908)
Penguin Island (1909)
The Opinions of Jerome Coignard (1913)
The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (1915)
The Human Tragedy (1917)
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1918)
The Bloom of Life (1923)
Pierre Noziere (1923)
Monsieur Bergeret in Paris (1925)
My Friend’s Book (1925)
Under the Rose (1927)
The Romance of the Queen Pedauque (1931)
The Gods Will Have Blood (1979)

Omnibus

Collections

Tales from a Mother of Pearl Casket (1896)
The Seven Wives of Bluebeard (1920)
The Works Of .. (1924)
Little Sea Dogs and Other Tales of Childhood (2004)

Chapbooks

Non fiction

Gods Are Athirst (1923)
The Life of Joan of Arc (1923)
Reflections On Life and Destiny (1925)
Prefaces, Introductions (1928)
On Life and Letters (1971)

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Anatole France Books Overview

At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque

This double volume contains two of the most representative novels of Anatole France. At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque, with its famous figure, the Abbe Jerome Coignard priest, scholar, and vagabond marked the full maturity of its author, and has always had the enthusiastic appreciation of British critics and readers. The Revolt of the Angels, written twenty years later, is France’s last major work, a realistic fantasy, with ideas which are apposite to day, and the book which the author regarded as his best. The two novels make an excellent pair, each in its own way typical of France’s tradition steeped yet sceptical philosophy, and of that ‘alternating communion and conflict of learning and licentiousness, of reason and romanticism, of the mundane and the divine.’ Anatole France’s works live on, and indeed in his class he is at the top.

Thais

Anatole France, de son nom exact Fran ois Anatole Thibault, 1844 1924, n Paris, quai Malaquais, est un crivain fran ais. Il est consid r comme l un des plus grands crivains de la Troisi me R publique dont il fut galement l un des plus importants critiques litt raires, et comme l une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps,’s engageant en faveur de nombreuses causes sociales et politiques du d but du XXe si cle. Anatole France fait ses tudes au coll ge Stanislas. Il est disciple de Leconte de lisle, avec qui il travaillera quelque temps comme biblioth caire au S nat. France conna t son premier succ s public, en 1881, avec Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, couronn par l Acad mie fran aise. Il rejoint mile Zola, avec qui il s est r concili , lors de l affaire Dreyfus. Il participe la fondation de la Ligue des droits de l homme. Son engagement dreyfusard se retrouve dans les quatre tomes de son Histoire Contemporaine 1897 1901. Il est laur at en 1921 du prix Nobel de litt rature pour l ensemble de son oeuvre. Ses oeuvres comprennent: Tha s 1890, Le Jardin d picure 1895, Pierre Nozi re 1899 et L le des Pingouins 1908.

Crainquebille

Anatole France 1844 1924 born Jacques Anatole Fran ois Thibault was a French writer who achieved fame with the publications of his novels ‘The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard’ 1881 and ‘Tha s’ 1890, also available in an edition from Wildside Press.

The White Stone

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The Red Lily

From Content: ‘The real name of the subject of this preface is Jacques Anatole Thibault. He was born in Paris, April 16, 1844, the son of a bookseller of the Quai Malaquais, in the shadow of the Institute. He was educated at the College Stanislas and published in 1868 an essay upon Alfred de Vigny. This was followed by two volumes of poetry: ‘Les Poemes Dores’ 1873, and ‘Les Noces Corinthiennes’ 1876. With the last mentioned book his reputation became established. Anatole France belongs to the class of poets known as ‘Les Parnassiens.’ Yet a book like ‘Les Noces Corinthiennes’ ought to be classified among a group of earlier lyrics, inasmuch as it shows to a large degree the influence of Andre Chenier and Alfred de Vigny. France was, and is, also a diligent contributor to many journals and reviews, among others, ‘Le Globe, Les Debats, Le Journal Officiel, L’Echo de Paris, La Revue de Famille, and Le Temps’. On the last mentioned journal he succeeded Jules Claretie. He is likewise Librarian to the Senate, and has been a member of the French Academy since 1896. The above mentioned two volumes of poetry were followed by many works in prose, which we shall notice. France’s critical writings are collected in four volumes, under the title, ‘La Vie Litteraire’ 1888 1892; his political articles in ‘Opinions Sociales’ 2 vols., 1902. He combines in his style traces of Racine, Voltaire, Flaubert, and Renan, and, indeed, some of his novels, especially ‘Thais’ 1890, ‘Jerome Coignard’ 1893, and Lys Rouge 1894, which was crowned by the Academy, are romances of the first rank. Criticism appears to Anatole France the most recent and possibly the ultimate evolution of literary expression, ‘admirably suited to a highly civilized society, rich in souvenirs and old traditions…
. It proceeds,’ in his opinion, ‘from philosophy and history, and demands for its development an absolute intellectual liberty…
.. It is the last in date of all literary forms, and it will end by absorbing them all…
. To be perfectly frank the critic should say: ‘Gentlemen, I propose to enlarge upon my own thoughts concerning Shakespeare, Racine, Pascal, Goethe, or any other writer.” It is hardly necessary to say much concerning a critic with such pronounced ideas as Anatole France. He gives us, indeed, the full flower of critical Renanism, but so individualized as to become perfection in grace, the extreme flowering of the Latin genius. It is not too much to say that the critical writings of Anatole France recall the Causeries du Lundi, the golden age of Sainte Beuve! ‘

Penguin Island

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TRANSLATED BY A. W. EVANS Penguin Island 1908; French: L’Ile des Pingouins is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of penguins that exists on the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the penguins as a sort of Greek pre Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord God who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the penguin history and from there forward the history mirrors that of France and largely Western Europe including Britain. From the Migration Period ‘Dark Ages’ when the Germanic tribes incessantly fought among one another for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ‘Draco the Great’ and conflicts with Viking raiders ‘porpoises’; to the Renaissance Erasmus; and up to the modern era with motor cars, and even a future time in which a thriving high tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything starts again in an endless cycle. The longest chapter and probably most well known is a satire of the Dreyfus affair. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Opinions of Jerome Coignard

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The Revolt of the Angels

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The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

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The Human Tragedy

When presently the sun had slipped behind the mountains, the man of God arose from his knees and took the path to the Monastery. On the white, silent road thither, he met a beggar, who asked him for alms for the love of God. ‘Alas!’ he told him, ‘I have nothing but my gown, and the Superior has forbidden me to cut it in two so as to give away the half. Therefore I cannot divide it with you. But if you love me, my son, you will take it off me whole and undivided.’ On hearing these words, the beggar promptly stripped the Friar of his own gown. Anatole France was a wonderful writer and a delicious satirist. He many of his works concern the divine, and our relationship with religion; sending up the church and Christian mythology was one of his favorite pursuits. But he wasn’t simply silly, as much modern satire is: France knew something about man, and he knew something about our relationship with God. Nestled in the humor is a certain poignancy, a observation of great truth that France wants to share with us…
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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France 1844 1924, born Fran ois Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Coll ge Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer at Bacheline Deflorenne and at Lemerre, and in 1876 he was appointed a librarian for the French Senate. He became known after the publication of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard 1881. Along with Emile Zola, he became involved in the Alfred Dreyfus affair. He signed Zola’s manifesto, publicly condemning the indictment of treason against Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain, who was being scapegoated to protect corrupt officials in the army. In 1901, France wrote about the affair in his book Monsieur Bergeret. He was elected to the French Academy in 1896 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. His later works include The Procurator of Judea 1902, Penguin Island 1908 and The Revolt of the Angels 1914.

Pierre Noziere

Monsieur Bergeret in Paris

My Friend’s Book

The Gods Will Have Blood

Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin’s ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed. The Gods Will Have Blood recreates the violence and devastation of the Terror with breathtaking power, and weaves into it a tale which grips, convinces and profoundly moves. The perfection of Anatole France’s prose style, with its myriad subtle ironies, is here translated by Frederick Davies with admirable skill and sensitivity. That The Gods Will Have Blood is Anatole France’s masterpiece is beyond doubt. It is also one of the most brilliantly polished novels in French literature.

Tales from a Mother of Pearl Casket

CONTENTS The Procurator of Jud a Amycus and Celestine The Legend of Saints Oliveria and Liberetta St. Euphrosine Scholastica Our Lady’s Juggler The Mass of Shadows Leslie Wood Gestas The Manuscript of a Village Doctor Memoirs of a Volunteer Dawn Madame de Luzy The Boon of Death Bestowed A Tale of the Month of Flor al in the Year II The Little Leaden Soldier Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

The Seven Wives of Bluebeard

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Little Sea Dogs and Other Tales of Childhood

It may be fairly claimed that no great author has written about children with a more delicate and sympathetic insight than Anatole France, and in no section of his work are the grace and tenderness of his genius more winningly exhibited than in those exquisite vignettes in which, giving himself the name of Pierre NoziPre, he recalls the days of his own childhood on the Quai Malaquais and the Quai Voltaire.

Gods Are Athirst

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The Life of Joan of Arc

On Life and Letters

CONTENTS Preface M. Alexandre Dumas the Younger Children’s Playthings Gustave Flaubert M. Guy de Maupassant, Critic and Novelist ‘Happiness’ M rim e Outside Literature Bibliophilia Criminals Death and the Little Gods The Great EncyclopFdia M. Henri Meilhac at the French Academy A Forgotten Poet: Saint Cyr de Rayssac The Errors of History On Scepticism Euripides M. Signoret’s Marionettes Mother and Daughter: Madame de Sabran and Madame de Custine M. Jules Lema tre 1814 Tomorrow M. Charles Morice The Great St. Antony Anthology The Wisdom of Gyp Anthology M. Gaston Paris and the French Literature of the Middle Ages Dictionary M. Zola’s Purity ‘The Tempest’ The Blond Tress An Honest Girl ‘The History of the People of Israel’ The Eloquence of the Tribune Romance and Magic M. Octave Feuillet Joan of Arc and Poetry Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.